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Nature by the uncool YBA, armoured ceramics and dizzying Aussie abstraction – the week in art

Cecily Brown blooms into life, Ashanti folklore is remade and three Indigenous Australians spill their ancient knowledge – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Bird lover calls for pigeons to appear on £20 banknotes as they're 'national treasures'

Tom Charter, 29, believes pigeons' contribution during the Second World War means the birds have earned a place on our banknotes

Evening Standard

‘The violence of racist tyranny’: African Guernica goes on display alongside Picasso masterpiece

Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme

The Guardian - UK

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Dark Mofo: 2026 festival to show Willem Dafoe film that can only be watched by one person at a time

Regular events at the Tasmanian festival, including the Winter Solstice Nude Swim and the Night Mass party, joined by Australian and international musicians and artists in a program dominated by Latin American art

The Guardian - AU

Italy's culture minister pledges to buy more artworks, as latest purchase shown in Rome

Italy's culture minister says he plans to increases purchases of major artworks, as the ministry unveiled a newly bought Antonello da Messina painting in the Senate

The Independent UK

Foreign tourists could be charged to visit UK museums - including top London sites

The UK government is exploring proposals to charge foreign tourists entry fees at major museums to bolster cultural funding

Evening Standard

Uruguay faces dilemma from the deep: what to do with a salvaged Nazi eagle?

Sculpture was retrieved from German battleship sunk in 1939 Battle of the River Plate but its future is controversial

The Guardian - US

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Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime review – shipwrecked Ophelia points the path to freedom

This illuminating exhibition traces the British Guyanese artist’s faltering first steps of painting with a social conscience to his escape from London to New York and abstraction

The Guardian - UK

Expecting to live past 100? Then this show, with its rotten fruit and robot companions, is for you

The Coming of Age, a new exhibition about ageing, features the sake cup for centenarians in Japan, Darwin’s skull-tipped walking stick and Sam Taylor-Johnson’s decaying still life

The Guardian - UK

The Two Roberts by Damian Barr audiobook review – love and lost dreams in bohemian London

This fictionalised account of the relationship between real-life artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun vividly depicts their romance and rise to fame – and the fall from grace that followed

The Guardian - UK

London shock discovery: Hidden staircase beneath historic church leads to sealed vault of coffins

A routine renovation of the Garden Museum- previously the medieval St Mary-at-Lambeth church- took place in London, England, back in 2016, as a result of lifting a stone that weighed several tons, workers discovered a staircase that had been concealed for centuries. This unexpected architectural feature led directly down into…

The Times of India

350-year mystery may be over: Archaeologists discover remains believed to be The Three Musketeers’ d’Artagnan’

A remarkable archaeological find in Maastricht may solve a 350-year-old mystery. Researchers uncovered a skeleton beneath a church altar. The remains include a musket ball fragment and a 17th-century French coin. These clues align with historical accounts of d'Artagnan, the legendary soldier who inspired The Three Musketeers. He reportedly died…

The Times of India

Watch: Strangers, a dog, and a moment the world chose to remember

A heartwarming act of kindness in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where strangers formed a human chain to rescue a dog from a reservoir in 2016, has been immortalized in a bronze sculpture. Unveiled recently, the artwork celebrates solidarity and collective action, reigniting online discussions about humanity's capacity for compassion and reminding us…

The Times of India

A Mirrored Monet review – painter reflects on his past in a musical with heart and humour

Carmel Owen’s ambitious musical follows the impressionist’s regrets back to his early adventures in art and his first marriage

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The Independent UK

Australian woman convicted after putting googly eyes on controversial ‘Blue Blob’ sculpture

Mount Gambier artwork depicts mythical megafauna inspired by ancient marsupials found in region’s caves

The Guardian - UK

Ministers consider charging tourists to enter national museums in England

Government says proposed levy for international tourists is part of initiative to improve arts funding

The Independent UK

Southbank Centre chair Misan Harriman urges artists to take a political stand: ‘I have no interest in entertaining’

‘Not all of us have world leaders on speed dial but we have the ability to do what we can with the tools we have access to,’ says Oscar-nominated artist Misan Harriman

The Independent UK

Lobsters and red carpet gowns: A new show celebrates Schiaparelli's surrealist fashion

The Victoria and Albert Museum is opening a new exhibition celebrating how the fashion house Schiaparelli turns fashion into surreal art

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The Guardian - UK

Angela de la Cruz review – wonky chairs and busted pianos are monuments to resilience

The Spanish artist’s oeuvre is full of objects that look broken but are still powering on – much as she has since she suffered a disabling stroke

The Guardian - UK

Redoubt review – Denis Lavant is unforgettable as an oddball building a public shelter for obscure disaster

John Skoog’s monochrome film is based on an art installation, and that shows in the pacing, but his central character is intriguing and utterly unique

The Guardian - UK

South African work banned from Venice Biennale to be shown outside main event

South Africa’s Venice pavilion left empty after Gabrielle Goliath’s ‘highly divisive’ tribute to Palestinian poet blocked

AAP

'No other venues': croc habitat to host Olympic rowing

Plans to hold the 2032 Brisbane Olympic rowing at a crocodile habitat remain on track for a defiant state government providing a Games venue update.

The Guardian - US

‘What a fascinating challenge for an artist’: how Monet captured Venice in his twilight years

New exhibition brings together the artist’s many Venetian paintings, a perfect match of artist and location that almost didn’t happen

The Guardian - UK

Michaelina Wautier review – an astounding lost artist steps out of her male contemporaries’ shadows

Wautier’s mighty paintings have been misattributed to her male peers for 300 years, but now UK audiences can enjoy their first encounter with a 17th-century trailblazer

The Guardian - UK

Hurvin Anderson review – this haunted, hazy, beautiful show is like stumbling through someone’s memories

Anderson creates figurative paintings with a dreamlike intangibility, exploring his black British and Jamaican heritage with a startlingly fragile and unresolved intensity

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